Increases in fuel and rubber hit consumers hard and carriers do everything to circumvent the rise in freight rates; management solutions can guarantee 25% savings, very welcome right now

Brazilians can no longer stand to hear about rising fuel prices. According to data from the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) released in June/2021, in May, gasoline had an increase of 2,31%, vehicular gas 23,75%, ethanol 12,92% and diesel oil (4,61%). As a result, transport suffers and the impact is directly on consumers' pockets.

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For the month of July, Petrobras has already announced a new increase for gasoline of 6,3% (BRL 0,16 in refineries), making the liter of fuel rise from BRL 2,53 to BRL 2,69 in the refineries of the state-owned company. Diesel will have an average readjustment of 3,7% (R$ 0,10) per liter and will cost R$ 2,81 at Petrobras refineries. Not to mention the additions due to taxes and tariffs until the fuel reaches the stations, at abusive and impracticable prices.

The increase in prices affects ordinary citizens directly in terms of fueling their vehicle, as well as indirectly, through the price of products on shelves, which increase due to freight costs. It is estimated that, on average, about 50% of fleet expenses in a carrier are fuel.

Fuels go through consecutive highs and activate the alert signal in carriers

As this scenario seems to have no return, it is necessary to appeal for solutions that can minimize expenses. Knowing where and when to spend has never been more important than it is now.

Seeking to maintain the good practice of competitive prices and guarantee the permanence of operations, carriers and logistics companies resort to technology and management systems to minimize expenses and reduce waste with the fleet. As in any line of business, the practice of efficient resource management turns out to be the key to keeping accounts in order.

A sure bet is the investment in management tools that allow, based on BI (Business Intelligence) technology, to manage the fleet and automatically optimize the management of inputs such as fuel, thus allowing savings to be generated.

Paulo Raymundi, CEO of Gestran, a company from Paraná with more than 20 years in the market in the development of fleet management tools, says that investment in management technology can generate a very interesting return in the short term.

Platform called Fleet Management promises to reduce spending on fuel, tires, maintenance and expenses by up to 25%

“With our platform called Fleet Management, we managed to deliver, on average, 20 to 25% savings for the entire fleet, as our system has a technology that evaluates and crosses a series of data and offers our customers the best options”, says Paulo Raymundi.

Developed in a 100% online web environment, Gestran's Fleet Management SaaS platform was developed based on the processes and needs of carriers and fleet managers, removing unnecessary bureaucracy, simplifying and automating fleet management processes, including : fuel, tires, maintenance and expenses.

“Technology makes it possible to automate and speed up daily operational processes, helping to reduce costs and increase companies' profitability”, emphasizes Raymundi.

Negotiation at service stations guarantees the lowest price: the application sends alerts of service stations with low prices to drivers

In addition, Fleet Management also allows the search for better prices in the region, issuing service alerts that can help in negotiating with fuel stations from the visualization of prices in the system.

“It is possible to run a simulation on the Gestran website using our impact calculator, which instantly shows the size of the economy that can be achieved”, reinforces the CEO of Gestran.

In addition, the platform is unique, online, integrated, with automatic search for the NF-e in Sefaz, which allows the automation of manual processes, fuel stock management, real-time monitoring, integration with an internal pump, reduction of costs and errors with launchings and control of discounts in the supplies.

Not only gasoline, diesel and ethanol fuels, but other items, such as tires, have also gone through price increases

If the increase in the price of gasoline, diesel, ethanol and CNG was not enough, other items, such as tires, have also gone through a price increase, especially due to the increase in the price of rubber in the international market and the rise in the dollar.

Tire manufacturers such as Pirelli, Continental and Michelin have sent carriers a statement of an average increase of 5% for July-August 2021 in tire prices.

However, like the specific module for fuel management, Fleet Management also has a module for tire control, with the same premise of savings for small, medium and large fleets.

For more information, access: the gestran website at this link